10. 50.
1.15.
1.40.
JOHN ST. JOHN
. The 3 Questions.
z. The 4 ordeals.
Warning and comfort as an
appeal to the Officers.
3. The Threshold.
The Chorus of Purification.
The Hymn " My heart, my mother
! " as already
written, years ago.
4. At the altar.
The accusation and defence as
antiphonies.
5. The journey.
Bar and pass, and the 4 visions
even as a mighty music.
6. The Hanged Man—the descent of Adonai.
7. The installation—signs, etc.
...
Sealing as for opening; but insert Sacrament.
During a lunch of
12
oysters,
Cépes
Bordelaise,
Tarte aux Cerises,
Cafe Noir, despatched without
Yoga or ceremonial, I wrote the Ritual in verse, in
the Egyptian Language.
I don’t think very well.
Time must show: also experience.
I’d recite Tenny-
son if I thought it would give Samadhil
Now more mantra, though by the Lord I’m getting
sick of it.
It occurs to me, now that I am seeing my way in the
Operation a little more clearly, that one might consider
the First Day as Osiris Slain 44, the Second as that of
the Mourning of Isis
U, the third as that of the
Triumph of Apophis
V, and to-day that of Osiris
Risen X ; these four days being perfect in themselves
as a 5°=6° operation (or possibly with one or two more
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